The first egg of a black hen is dyed, hidden in a pocket, and carried to church on Easter Sunday.

A short distance beyond were a handful of black hens, which, according to Gray, served a more important purpose beside food to the villagers.

And if fever or skin disease befalls the inhabitants later, then blood from the comb of another black hen will be taken as a cure.

The three black hens that my mother bought pecked at the hands of the boy who carried them, still crated, to the truck.

The coat of arms of Henneberg showed a black hen.

For a week that old black hen has circumvented me, but at last I have conquered.

For stew today, I killed the black hen who'd stopped laying.

The plump black hen that appeared out of nowhere on a cold winter day disappeared just as mysteriously a week ago.

The feathers were plucked from a live black hen one by one and inserted into the knots as they are made in the cord.

Once upon a time there was a handsome black Spanish hen, who had a large brood of chickens.